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and windows, and loaded several muskets, which were near at hand. 

 He then called for two hired men who were in his father's employ, 

 to stand by him and defend the house and family. During the whole 

 period he manifested the utmost coolness and the most determined 

 bravery, declaring that he would do no injury to any man who was 

 quiet, but that he would shoot the first person that offered any vio- 

 lence to the family or house. No such violence was offered, for 

 though the mob came, they directed their zeal to other objects. 

 The disease however was broken and never returned. He continu- 

 ed from that time perfectly well, and pursued his usual business with- 

 out the least difHculty or interruption. 



NOTE C, 



Since writing the above, I have read cursorily what Fourcroy has 

 written on the Gastric Liquor. He states that several physiologists 

 assert that they have found that fluid acid, and that this has been the 

 case, wheh it has been discharged by natural vomiting or by vomi- 

 ting from an emetic ; and that it has also been true of the liquor 

 found in the stomachs of animals opened for anatomical observation. 

 He further states, that Citizen Goffa, (elsewhere written Gosse) ob- 

 served his own gastric juice had a well marked acidity, when he had 

 eaten crude vegetables. 



The amount of all these declarations seems to be nothing more 

 than this, that various persons have found an acid mixed with the 

 gastric liquor : a fact which the first physician that ever knew there 

 was such a liquor, and ever saw a person spontaneously vomit, could 

 scarcely fail to admit. 



NOTE D, 



Of the first kind of diarrhea, the following case may serve as arj 

 example. A young gentlemen some years ago confined himself to 

 study, for about three years, as much as ten or twelve hours a day, 

 with almost no exercise. About the beginning of the third year, 



